Sahra Wagenknecht

About Sahra Wagenknecht

After being elected in 2009 as a Member of the German Bundestag (national legislative body), this politician became Vice President of Germany's Die Linke (The Left) party.

Sahra Wagenknecht is a German leftist politician, economist, writer and publicist. Together with Dietmar Bartsch, she was president of the Die Linke Congress from 2010 to 2019. From 2009 she was a member of the Bundestag.

Political party	The Left (2007–present)
Spouse(s)	Ralph-Thomas Niemeyer (1997–2013), Oskar Lafontaine (2014–)
Succeeded by	Amira Mohamed Ali
Education	University of Jena (dropped out), HU Berlin (dropped out), University of Groningen (MA), TU Chemnitz (PhD)
Born	July 16, 1969, Jena, East Germany
Other political affiliations	Party of Democratic Socialism (1989–2007), Socialist Unity Party of Germany (1989)
Preceded by	Gregor Gysi
Nationality	German

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Trivia

She served the North Rhine-Westphalia constituency in the Bundestag.

Sahra Wagenknecht before fame

She became a member of Germany's Socialist Unity Party after joining a socialist organisation known as Free German Youth when she was younger.

Achievement of Sahra Wagenknecht

In the Bundestag, she represented the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Salary 2020

Not known

Net Worth 2020

Undisclosed

Sahra Wagenknecht family life

As the daughter of a German mother and an Iranian father, she grew up in Jena and East Berlin, Germany. She married fellow politician Oskar Lafontaine in December 2014 after divorcing her first husband, Ralph-Thomas Niemeyer, in 2013.

Associations of Sahra Wagenknecht

She studied German literature and philosophy at college, and her thesis focused on the work of German political philosopher Karl Marx.

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